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Nilesh Agarwal, Co-founder & CTO at Inferless, shares insights on accelerating LLM inference in the cloud using Alluxio, tackling key bottlenecks like slow model weight loading from S3 and lengthy container startup time. Inferless uses Alluxio as a three-tier cache system that dramatically cuts model load time by 10x.
In this talk, Jingwen Ouyang, Senior Product Manager at Alluxio, will share how Alluxio make it easy to share and manage data from any storage to any compute engine in any environment with high performance and low cost for your model training, model inference, and model distribution workload.
Storing data as Parquet files on cloud object storage, such as AWS S3, has become prevalent not only for large-scale data lakes but also as lightweight feature stores for training and inference, or as document stores for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). However, querying petabyte-to-exabyte-scale data lakes directly from S3 remains notoriously slow, with latencies typically ranging from hundreds of milliseconds to several seconds.
In this webinar, David Zhu, Software Engineering Manager at Alluxio, will present the results of a joint collaboration between Alluxio and a leading SaaS and data infrastructure enterprise that explored leveraging Alluxio as a high-performance caching and acceleration layer atop AWS S3 for ultra-fast querying of Parquet files at PB scale.
David will share:
- How Alluxio delivers sub-millisecond Time-to-First-Byte (TTFB) for Parquet queries, comparable to S3 Express One Zone, without requiring specialized hardware, data format changes, or data migration from your existing data lake.
- The architecture that enables Alluxio’s throughput to scale linearly with cluster size, achieving one million queries per second on a modest 50-node deployment, surpassing S3 Express single-account throughput by 50x without latency degradation.
- Specifics on how Alluxio offloads partial Parquet read operations and reduces overhead, enabling direct, ultra-low-latency point queries in hundreds of microseconds and achieving a 1,000x performance gain over traditional S3 querying methods.
Speaker: David Zhu
David Zhu is a Software Engineer Manager at Alluxio. At Alluxio, David focuses on metadata management and end-to-end performance benchmarking and optimizations. Prior to that, David completed his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, with a focus on distributed data management systems and operating systems for the data center. David also holds a Bachelor of Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
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Unicom’s traditional batch architecture consists mainly of IOE, Hive, and Greenplum systems. With the development of business, a large number of computing application modules based on diverse scenarios, chimney-like, decentralized applications have emerged. To solve the problem of resource fragmentation, we have introduced a unified computing platform for computing ecology with Spark and Alluxio as the core. Alluxio plays an important role in accelerating data processing and ensuring process stability.
Describe benefits and methods Alluxio enables secure data access in the Comcast’s dx hybrid data cloud.
- Review the data access challenges and tradeoffs in hybrid cloud
- Review our hybrid architecture and the important role Alluxio plays
- Provide performance metrics to highlight the benefits
Data infrastructure on-premises is increasingly complex and cloud adoption is attractive for business agility. Operating a hybrid environment is an approach to start benefiting from cloud elasticity quickly without abandoning the infrastructure on-premises. In this session I will discuss the benefits of using Alluxio’s Data Orchestration Platform to dynamically burst Apache Spark and Presto workloads to Amazon EMR for best performance and agility.
Dataproc is Google’s managed Hadoop and Spark platform. In this talk, we will showcase how to swiftly build a hybrid cloud data platform with Alluxio and Presto and migrate data seamlessly.
Today, many people run deep learning applications with training data from separate storage such as object storage or remote data centers. This presentation will demo the Intel Analytics Zoo + Alluxio stack, an architecture that enables high performance while keeping cost and resource efficiency balanced without network being I/O bottlenecked.
Intel Analytics Zoo is a unified data analytics and AI platform open-sourced by Intel. It seamlessly unites TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Spark, Flink, and Ray programs into an integrated pipeline, which can transparently scale from a laptop to large clusters to process production big data. Alluxio, as an open-source data orchestration layer, accelerates data loading and processing in Analytics Zoo deep learning applications.
This talk, we will go over:
- What is Analytics Zoo and how it works
- How to run Analytics Zoo with Alluxio in deep learning applications
- Initial performance benchmark results using the Analytics Zoo + Alluxio stack
Nowadays, cloud native environments have attracted lots of data-intensive applications deployed and ran on them, due to the efficient-to-deploy and easy-to-maintain advantages provided by cloud native platforms and frameworks such as Docker, Kubernetes. However, cloud native frameworks does not provide the data abstraction support to the applications natively. Therefore, we build Fluid project, which co-orchestrate data and containers together. We use Alluxio as the cache runtime inside Fluid to warm up hot data. In this report, we will introduce the design and effects of the Fluid project.
Unisound focuses on Artificial Intelligence services for the Internet of Things. It is an artificial intelligence company with completely independent intellectual property rights and the world’s top intelligent voice technology. Atlas is the Deep Learning platform within Unisound AI Labs, which provides deep learning pipeline support for hundreds of algorithm scientists. This talk shares three real business training scenarios that leverage Alluxio’s distributed caching capabilities and Fluid’s cloud native capabilities, and achieve significant training acceleration and solve platform IO bottlenecks. We hope that the practice of Alluxio & Fluid on Atlas platform will bring benefits to more companies and engineers.
Data and Machine Learning (ML) technologies are now widespread and adopted by literally all industries. Although recent advancements in the field have reached an unthinkable level of maturity, many organizations still struggle with turning these advances into tangible profits. Unfortunately, many ML projects get stuck in a proof-of-concept stage without ever reaching customers and generating revenue. In order to effectively adopt ML technologies, enterprises need to build the right business cases as well as to be ready to face the inevitable technical challenges. In this talk, we will share some common pitfalls, lessons learned, and engineering practices, faced while building customer-facing enterprise ML products. In particular, we will focus on the engineering that delivers real-time audience insights everyday to thousands of marketers via the Helixa’s market research platform.
During the talk you will learn:
- An overview of the Helixa ML end-to-end system
- Useful engineering practices and recommended tools (PyData stack, AWS, Alluxio, scikit-learn, tensorflow, mlflow, jupyter, github, docker, Spark, to name a few..)
- The R&D workflow and how it integrates with the production system
- Infrastructure considerations for scalable and cheap deployment, monitoring, and alerting
- How to leverage modern cloud serverless architectures for data and machine learning applications
Enterprises everywhere are racing to build the optimal analytics stack for creating repeatable success with predictive analytics, machine learning, and data applications. Cloud data platforms like data warehouses and data lakes are foundational elements of these software stacks and their associated data pipelines. But existing SQL query methods against these data platforms have repeatedly demonstrated disappointing performance and scaling due to poor concurrency.
In this presentation, we will discuss the use of the intelligent precomputation capabilities of Kyligence Cloud as a means of delivering on the promise of pervasive analytics at scale with massive concurrency and sub-second query latencies on large datasets in the cloud.
Kyligence, with our partner Alluxio, sits between the data platform and the processing layer. Kyligence Cloud delivers precomputed datasets for OLAP queries, BI dashboards, and machine learning applications.
In most of the distributed storage systems, the data nodes are decoupled from compute nodes. This is motivated by an improved cost efficiency, storage utilization and a mutually independent scalability of computation and storage. While this consideration is indisputable, several situations exist where moving computation close to the data brings important benefits. Whenever the stored data is to be processed for analytics purposes, all the data needs to be repeatedly moved from the storage to the compute cluster, which leads to reduced performance.
In this talk, we will present how using Alluxio computation and storage ecosystems can better interact benefiting of the “bringing the data close to the code” approach. Moving away from the complete disaggregation of computation and storage, data locality can enhance the computation performance. During this talk, we will present our observations and testing results that will show important enhancements in accelerating Spark Data Analytics on Ceph Objects Storage using Alluxio.
At PayPal & any other data driven enterprise – data users & applications work with a variety of data sources (RDBMS, NoSQL, Messaging, Documents, Big Data, Time Series Databases), compute engines (Spark, Flink, Beam, Hive), languages (Scala, Python, SQL) and execution models (stream, batch, interactive) to process petabytes of data. Due to this complex matrix of technologies and thousands of datasets, engineers spend considerable time learning about different data sources, formats, programming models, APIs, optimizations, etc. which impacts time-to-market (TTM).
To solve this problem and to make product development more effective, PayPal Data Platforms developed “Gimel”, an open source, unified analytics data platform which provides access to any storage through a single unified data API and SQL, which are powered by a centralized data catalog.